Island Studies Journal (ISJ)

Island Studies Journal (ISJ)

http://www.islandstudies.ca/journal

Publisher: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

Island Studies Journal (ISJ) is a web-based, freely downloadable, open
access, peer reviewed, electronic journal that publishes papers ...

* advancing and critiquing the study of issues affecting or involving
islands;
* reviewing, surveying, or providing a fresh perspective on existing and
upcoming ?island studies¹ literature;
* promoting and supporting the comparative study of islands, or of issues,
policies and developments thereof;
* seeing islands as part of complex systems of regional or global
interaction and therefore also focusing on ?island-mainland¹ relations and
comparisons;
* disseminating island-based and island-tested best practices that may be
proposed, adopted or adapted by island communities, entrepreneurs,
governments or civil society associations;
* encouraging the development of island studies, this being the
inter-disciplinary and pluri-disciplinary study of islands on their own
terms;
* reviewing books, monographs and other educational initiatives which
purport to contribute to island knowledge;
* developing an audience for island studies scholarship and a reputable
platform for the growing scholarly community interested in island studies:
including teachers, researchers, community representatives, students and
public policy officials who are interested in, hail from, live on, or work
on, islands? as well as islanders generally.

ISSN (On-Line): 1715-2593

Email: isj@upei.ca

Editor-in-Chief: 

Godfrey Baldacchino
Canada Research Chair (Island Studies)
University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI)
Canada

Email: gbaldacchino@upei.ca

Deputy Editor: 

Irene Novaczek
Marine biology /Director, Institute of Island Studies
University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI)
Canada

Email: inovaczek@upei.ca

Abstracts available in .doc format. Articles available in PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Vol. 2, No. 2, November 2007 

Date: 7 December 2007